A Parliament member and widow of...

LADY AMALIA FLEMING, 73,

February 27, 1986

ATHENS, GREECE — LADY AMALIA FLEMING, 73, a Parliament member and widow of British scientist Sir Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin in 1928, died Wednesday. Born Amalia Kousouri, she worked for the resistance during the Nazi occupation of Greece in World War II. In 1946 she became Fleming's research assistant in London. They married in 1953, when he was 72 and she was 37. He died two years later. A staunch opponent of the 1967-74 Greek military regime, she was arrested and expelled from Greece in 1971. She lived in London until the regime collapsed in 1974. Three years later she was elected to Parliament.